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I had to switch to decaf some years ago, my heart is quiet now! It was hard to find decaf with real coffee flavor, I have settled on Community Special Decaf.

I have an aeropress, and I typically rinse off the little paper filter and reuse it 4 or five times. Really happy with it.

A good place to get custom foam is The Foam Store in Houston, Texas. I have bought from them several times, the prices are very reasonable. It turns out there are different grades of urethane foam, I have a pad of 1 inch thick of the stiffest and it won’t compress to the floor when I lay on it...

I understand that deflating tires somewhat will help to drive on sand without getting stuck, but I have not tried it.

The Gulf water is very warm, even hot in the summertime and it is very humid of course. What happens with the wind in summer is that the land heats up more than the ocean in the afternoon causing the “seabreeze”, a strong wind off of the ocean heading inland. Then at night the land cools more...

My breakfast is muesli (half cup of rolled oats soaked in sugar water overnight) along with seeds and nuts mix. I also have a swallow of kefir, which is a drinkable yogurt, around here it is $3.75 a quart, which lasts for a couple of weeks. Big improvement in my digestion. I also eat a bit of...

Not medical advice, I am not a doctor, but when I had shingles I put some aspercreme on it. It says don’t apply to broken skin or large areas of skin. It seemed to help calm the inflammation for me.

A free program to help you identify what is in the night sky is called ‘stellarium’. The is a desktop version, a browser version and also mobile apps. Stellarium.org and stellarium-web.org

A place to read and learn is a forum like this one called ’cloudy nights’. They also have a classified section where you can get a setup from someone who is upgrading or just changing hobbies. The deals are much better there than retail. You will also need to get eyepieces and a mount, and...

Don’t park anywhere near a bank or ATM. There is a lot of crime happening that has crooks following people from banks and robbing them. So cops are on the lookout for vehicles stopped near banks and ATMs.

A lot of the smaller parcels I have seen are lots in new subdivisions, that have restrictions about type of dwelling or you must commit to building. Sometimes these attempted ritzy subdivisions fail, and then the lots may be cheaper and less restricted.

The land in the mountains of west Texas is all taken by very large ranches and private holdings for hunting, reserved for the very rich and the politically connected. I very much doubt there are any small, affordable parcels to be had. Even if there were, they would be without water.

You must mean 4-7 k ft in *west Texas*. Southern Texas is a flat, low plain, even San Antonio is only 643 ft above sea level. Laredo is at 438 ft. Also, due to Texas having been an independent republic before statehood, there is very little public land in Texas.

You should be sure to check out the water situation before you buy land there. As I understand it you cannot drill a water well without permission from the State and that is hard to get. That may be the reason for cheap land. I owned a parcel near Cuba NM but no water was available.

" Ford Transit, cost to own: https://www.edmunds.com/ford/transit-van/2019/cost-to-own/ Total for 5 years, $56,369. Fuel is $17,680 of that, or 31% of the total." This estimate is for a new vehicle. The breakdown of the cost in this estimate is depreciation (20,667), taxes and fees (2,867...

These vans are originally designed to be city delivery vans, so they should have been hybrids from the beginning of hybrid adoption. There is a lot of rural driving that is the same as city driving with slower speeds and stops, e.g. parks and forests. Calaverasgrande has it right, lots of...

Why can't they make a hybrid van? Any hybrid van with good mpgs would sell like crazy. A 4wd version would be snapped up by the adventure/vanlife crowd. Drives me crazy waiting for this obvious development...

Thanks, that is very helpful.  At 10:40 in the video he starts showing his kitchen, which has a 14 inch wide rack between the cot and the back door of the Sedona.  I do also notice that the driver seat is folded forward and perhaps is at the most forward position, so this is not a ready-to-drive...

Well, thank you for the suggestions, but what this really tells me is no one has this van, I don't see any numbers.  No matter, I am thinking about a Honda CR-V AWD as an interim road trip solution since the mpgs are better.  Not so roomy though.  There is no dealership near me I don't trust...

I am aware that information can be found using search engines.  This failed for me, for this minivan, so I came to this forum to ask this question.  I would still like the information, if anyone here has this van, I would appreciate it.  Thank you for the suggestion that I try an internet search.